Stream Enhancement, Education, Angling Opportunity
Saturday Feb 7th, Nestucca Angler volunteers completed the first round of our annual pond, property & site cleanup.
Our healthy 2025-2026 Fall Chinook fry remain in the hatch house at Cedar Creek Hatchery and are on schedule to transfer to our Rhoades Pond facility this April.
More updates to come soon. Thank you to all the volunteers for your continued support.
Amity Salmon & Habitat Field Trip 2025
Nestucca Anglers met with our partners this past October to host the Amity 3rd grade science classes in an education field trip. The group toured the Cedar Creek fish hatchery as well as Salmon habitat on Three Rivers.
Please enjoy this educational video of the field trip. View video link HERE.
Update 11/05/25:
Nestucca Angler’s and Cedar Creek Hatchery staff have now officially spawned the last egg take for our 2025-26 fry. The fry will stay in the hatch house under the care of the hatchery staff through the winter.
Thank you once again to the Cedar Creek Hatchery staff as their leadership and teamwork is a big part of the success of Rhoades pond Fall Chinook Broodstock Program (ODFW STEP).
Cheers,
NA
Update: 2026 Boodstock offspring in the making.
Our first spawning of Fall Chinook Broodstock for 2026 babies was on Oct 22nd. Huge thank you to all our volunteers and to those who participated in this year’s river collection process.
Stay tuned as we will have more updates on this year’s allotment soon!
2025 Cedar Creek Hatchery Parking Lot Project
Nestucca Anglers requested approval on May 21, 2024 from Oregon Department of Transportation to clean up the parking lot for the youth and ethical fisherman.
On June 24th, 2024 a permit was issued and volunteers from the Nestucca Basin started work on the project.
Please view our YouTube video link below on the cleanup process and results.
VIEW HERE:
Mission Statement: Stream Enhancement, Education, Fishing Opportunity
Cheers!
NA
Nestucca Anglers liberated our 2025 Fall Chinook smolts August 12th into the Nestucca basin. Even with the hot weather, the volunteers working with ODFW staff, released the fish into the river by 10am. It was a great success, keeping the fish healthy and safe.
Our full production of fish was met and the average size accomplished. Thank you for all the great work and dedication to our feeding volunteers. Thank you also to all the volunteers and ODFW Staff that worked hard in the early morning to make our 26th annual release successful.
View fun Instagram release video HERE:
Great turnout for our annual event and we are now officially complete.
The smolts are healthy and will continue to be fed by volunteers and released into the Nestucca basin towards the end of August.
Special thank you to this years sponsors, contributors and all of our volunteers. We appreciate you all and couldn’t be successful without you….
It makes a difference!
2025 Annual Clipping Party
Save the date, mark your calendar for our 26th annual clipping event.
Nestucca Anglers is a volunteer organization that invites everyone to help clip 100,000 Fall Chinook Smolt annually. Bring the family and enjoy a great day with us on the coast.
Please help us pass the word on the event. Thank you to all of our event sponsors as we have lots of raffle and auction items that have been donated again this year.
View our 2025 Flyer HERE
Update : Our 2025 fry were transported to Rhoades pond Wednesday April 9th.
We have our full allotment of fish and the feeding volunteers will start twice a day as of this week. Stay tuned and we will keep you posted on up coming events and the progress of the fish.
Thank you for your support.
Saturday Feb 1st, Nestucca Angler volunteers completed the first round of our annual pond, property & site cleanup.
Our healthy 2024-2025 Fall Chinook fry remain in the hatch house at Cedar Creek Hatchery and are on schedule to transfer to our Rhoades Pond facility this April.
More updates to come soon. Thank you to all the volunteers for your continued support.